by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Little clown, my heart
Language: English
Little clown, my heart, Spangled again and lopsided, Handstands and Peking pirouettes, Backflips snapping open like A carpenter’s hinged ruler, Little gimp-footed hurray, Paper parasol of pleasures, Fleshy undertongue of sorrows, Sweet potato plant of my addictions, Acapulco cliff-diver corazón, Fine as an obsidian dagger, Alley-oop and here we go Into the froth, my life, Into the flames!
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, appears in Loose Woman: Poems, New York : Vintage, first published 1994 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Helen Grime (b. 1981), "Little clown, my heart", 2021 [ soprano and strings ], from It will be spring soon, no. 2, Chester Music Ltd
Publisher: Wise Music Classical [external link] [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2025-12-13
Line count: 14
Word count: 58